Revision 21e9757e31d136fad0c04f3ce9da11b8b128b4f2 authored by Alex Riesen on 01 August 2007, 12:57:43 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 02 August 2007, 00:58:12 UTC
It wont work for arguments with special characters (like ", : or *). It is generally not possible on Windows, so I didn't even try. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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i18n.txt
At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic.
- The pathnames recorded in the index and in the tree objects
are treated as uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL bytes.
What readdir(2) returns are what are recorded and compared
with the data git keeps track of, which in turn are expected
to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such
thing as pathname encoding translation.
- The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequence
of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core
level.
- The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequence of non-NUL
bytes.
Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded
in UTF-8, both the core and git Porcelain are designed not to
force UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular
project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, git
does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in
mind.
. `git-commit-tree` (hence, `git-commit` which uses it) issues
an warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your
project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to
have i18n.commitencoding in `.git/config` file, like this:
+
------------
[i18n]
commitencoding = ISO-8859-1
------------
+
Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
of `i18n.commitencoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to
help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
. `git-log`, `git-show` and friends looks at the `encoding`
header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log
message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can
specify the desired output encoding with
`i18n.logoutputencoding` in `.git/config` file, like this:
+
------------
[i18n]
logoutputencoding = ISO-8859-1
------------
+
If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
`i18n.commitencoding` is used instead.
Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit
object level, because re-coding to UTF-8 is not necessarily a
reversible operation.
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